"I'm going with him."
Muku looked at Ning Feng with a resolute expression, then spoke without hesitation.
His father was already dead, and he had already seen the state Kusagakure was in...
Besides, he had signed a contract with Ning Feng.
By both sentiment and reason, he had to leave with Ning Feng.
"You really are... sigh."
Ryuzetsu raised a finger and pointed at the hopeless Muku, the corner of her mouth twitching slightly.
She wanted to say something, but swallowed the words just as they reached her lips.
Ever since he had emerged from that box, Muku's personality had grown more forceful.
His former meek, fragile demeanor was long gone.
In its place was a Muku who stood by his word and acted decisively and ruthlessly.
Was this change... good or bad?
Ryuzetsu sighed inwardly.
Still, after listening to Ning Feng's persuasion just now, she had actually begun to waver a little.
Now that she knew Muku's choice, she could only go along with it. "Then let's defect... are you coming with us too?"
"Me, go with you?"
Ning Feng pointed at himself with a rather comical expression.
This girl... actually thought he was encouraging her to defect?
And then letting the two of them wander?
"I hear a Shinobi War has broken out. Even outside Kusagakure, the Shinobi World is probably in utter turmoil."
Ryuzetsu looked at Muku and said helplessly, "But... since Kusagakure treated Muku like this, we can't keep living there after what happened."
There was one thing she left unsaid: You killed everyone responsible for the Box of Ultimate Bliss... if just the two of us go back, Kusagakure's higher-ups aren't idiots. They'll suspect us right away...
"The Fourth Shinobi World War has indeed broken out, but things have already eased up. If you want